- Sep 11, 2012
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Hi,
I just purchased a Seagate 4TB internal HDD today. I got home, plugged it into my tower, booted up and was slightly puzzled to see that it wasn't there. (EDIT: In "This PC")
Not a problem I thought, I'll just go into Disk Management, it probably needs initializing. So I loaded up Disk Management. My 200 GB (seagate) system drive shows up, my 1TB (WD) storage drive shows up (and its partition)... And then a mystery "Disk 2". I figure, this has got to the 4 TB Seagate. It says it's not initialized. Worryingly, it also states that the drive is only 128 GB.
Odd! So I went ahead and initialized the drive. It asked be, MBR or GPT. I thought well, lets just hit it with MBR. (I recall reading somewhere, in hindsight, that MBR is cannot handle a data size, over 2 TB or so? Either way, I don't think it has anything to do with the problem). After a few seconds a message popped up, saying something along the lines of "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error".
So I tried again, initialize, picked GPT, same thing again. So I pottered about online, tried to find a solution to this. Restarted the computer, just to see if I could see it in the BIOS, and sure enough I could see three drives, one with UEFI over the top which I take it must be my system drive, and the other two being the WD and the 4TB Segate.
So I booted back into Windows, still nothing, opened up Disk Management... And it's gone. It's not there any more, the mystery 128 GB Disk 2. I booted back into my BIOS, disconnected the 1 TB WD so it was just the system disk and the new 4TB HDD, and the BIOS only shows one disk, the system disk. Where did it go?!
I'm a bit fuzzy on my exact MoBo, I think it's a Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H.. I think. Like 99% positive. I'm using Windows 8.1 64-bit, Intel i5-3570.
Can someone please dig me out of this low-storage-capacity hell?
I just purchased a Seagate 4TB internal HDD today. I got home, plugged it into my tower, booted up and was slightly puzzled to see that it wasn't there. (EDIT: In "This PC")
Not a problem I thought, I'll just go into Disk Management, it probably needs initializing. So I loaded up Disk Management. My 200 GB (seagate) system drive shows up, my 1TB (WD) storage drive shows up (and its partition)... And then a mystery "Disk 2". I figure, this has got to the 4 TB Seagate. It says it's not initialized. Worryingly, it also states that the drive is only 128 GB.
Odd! So I went ahead and initialized the drive. It asked be, MBR or GPT. I thought well, lets just hit it with MBR. (I recall reading somewhere, in hindsight, that MBR is cannot handle a data size, over 2 TB or so? Either way, I don't think it has anything to do with the problem). After a few seconds a message popped up, saying something along the lines of "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error".
So I tried again, initialize, picked GPT, same thing again. So I pottered about online, tried to find a solution to this. Restarted the computer, just to see if I could see it in the BIOS, and sure enough I could see three drives, one with UEFI over the top which I take it must be my system drive, and the other two being the WD and the 4TB Segate.
So I booted back into Windows, still nothing, opened up Disk Management... And it's gone. It's not there any more, the mystery 128 GB Disk 2. I booted back into my BIOS, disconnected the 1 TB WD so it was just the system disk and the new 4TB HDD, and the BIOS only shows one disk, the system disk. Where did it go?!
I'm a bit fuzzy on my exact MoBo, I think it's a Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H.. I think. Like 99% positive. I'm using Windows 8.1 64-bit, Intel i5-3570.
Can someone please dig me out of this low-storage-capacity hell?
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